page_title: McFerson Commons
section_title: Union Station arch
hierarchical_section_title: McFerson Commons / Attributes and history / Union Station arch
caption_attribution_description: English: Columbus, Ohio photograph by Carol M. Highsmith.
context_page_description: McFerson Commons is a 2.2-acre park in Columbus, Ohio's Arena District neighborhood. The focal point of the park is an arch salvaged before the demolition of Columbus's Union Station.
context_section_description: The park, sometimes known as Arch Park, has an old Beaux Arts arch as its central focal point. The arch was part of Columbus's Union Station, designed by Daniel Burnham in 1893, but demolished in 1979 to make way for the Greater Columbus Convention Center. The arch, the only remaining portion of the station, was moved to the park.
  The arch was originally the northern of two identical grand archways in the colonnade leading to the station. The southern archway was demolished along with a third of the colonnade in 1928. The structure consists of a recessed semicircular arch flanked by four fluted round Corinthian columns. An angel relief is carved into each of the arch's extradoes. The arch has friezes with decorative eagle medallions. Above this is a denticulated cornice, and above that was a wider frieze with triglyphs and alternating medallions with classical busts. Above that was another denticulated cornice with gargoyles. The pedestals above the Corinthian columns featured statue groups.
caption: Arch from Union Station
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